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“I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not.”

Persons Real Perception Contrary Real Relationship

Author:Sienna Miller

“On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be embraced by all, but that a new understanding and a new perception are requisite; and, therefore, that faith does not depend on the will of men, but that it is God who gives it.”

Men Giving Doe Understanding Christ Depends Perception Contrary Doctrine Exception

Book:John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)

Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)

“The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.”

Truth Is Perception Contrary Usual Paradoxical

Book:The accursed share: an essay on general economy

Source: The accursed share: an essay on general economy

“Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.”

Men Way Mind Reason Lying Clear Habit Perception Weak Competition Contrary Odds Bent Inclination

Author:George Berkeley

“Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.”

Faith Perception Contrary Senses

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are the phenomena of perception... If we were all alike: if we were millions of people saying do, re, mi, in unison, One poet would be enough... But we are not alone, and everything needs expounding all the time because, as people live and die, each one perceiving life and death for himself, and mostly by and in himself, there develops a curiosity about the perceptions of others. This is what makes it possible to go on saying new things about old things.”

“Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.”

Believe Desire Failing Perception Contrary Tempted Phenomenology

Book:Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction

Source: Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction

“The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.”

Men Mind Humans Wells Universe Individual Understanding Race Human Nature Perception Mirrors Foundation Contrary Rays Idols Receiving Tribes Assertion Mingling

Book:New Atlantis and The Great Instauration

Source: New Atlantis and The Great Instauration

“What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the purely scientific, which possess far greater merit are almost unknown. And yet the latter are the proper source from which the others flow. Practice alone can never lead to the discovery of a truth or a principle. In Germany it is quite the contrary. Here in the eyes of scientific men no value, or at least but a trifling one, is placed upon the practical results. The enrichment of science is alone considered worthy attention.”

“Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as an operation and scientific culture as an ideology created veils that hindered perception of the underlying operations of historical capitalism.”

Culture Individual Force Perception Capitalism Historical Contrary Ideology Operations Threatening Veils Hierarchy Framework Mobility Meritocracy Allocation

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life. I have never had a one-night stand. I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not. I get kind of emotionally involved very quickly, and I'm not going to spend time with someone unless I love them. But it's not hard for me to fall in love.”

Kind Persons Real Hard Whole Night Fall Taken Involved Perception Falling In Love Contrary Whole Life End Times Spend Time One Night One Night Stand Real Relationship

Author:Sienna Miller